NeighborGood
September 28, 2025
16th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 21 – Year C
Luke 16:19-31
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(The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
1 “Unlike National Pretzel Day, National Miniature Golf Day, or even April Fools Day, National
Good Neighbor Day is an actual holiday.” National Good Neighbor Day website. Accessed
09/27/2025: https://www.nationalgoodneighborday.org/history/
2 Helen Montgomery Debevoise, “Luke 16:19-31, Pastoral Perspective”, editors David L.
Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor, Feasting on the Word— Year C, Volume 4: Season after
Pentecost 2 (Propers 17-Reign of Christ) (Feasting on the Word: Year C). Presbyterian
Publishing Corporation, 2010. Kindle edition. Page 315 · Location 4289.
3 David Burton, “’Good Fences Make Good Neighbors’” Misses the Point,” The Hopeful
Neighbor Project, Accessed 09/27/2025: https://www.hopefulneighborhood.org/blog/good-
fences-make-good-neighbors-misses-the-point/
4 National Good Neighbor Day website – History page.
A Call to Shrewdness
September 21, 2025
15th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 20 – Year C
Luke 16:1-13
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(The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
1 Amy-Jill Levine and Ben Witherington III, “The Parable of the Dishonest Manager and the
Trapped Master,” The Gospel of Luke, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge: 2018), 444.
Faithful Forgiveness
October 2, 2022
Church of the Servant
17th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 21, Year C Luke 17:1-10 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon (The second link below includes both the Gospel reading and the Sermon.)
A Heavenly Treasure is Our Earthly Call
September 25, 2022
Church of the Servant
16th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 21, Year C Luke 16:19-31; 1 Timothy 6:6-19 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon (The second link below includes both the Gospel reading and the Sermon.)
Sources:
Amy Jill Levine, Short Stores by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi, Harper Collins Publishers, (New York: 2014), p. 280.
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